Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/friund

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *frijōndz.

Noun

*friund m

1. friend

   Synonym: *wini

Inflection

Consonant stem
	Singular
Nominative	*friund
Genitive	*friundi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*friund	*friundi
Accusative	*friundu	*friundi
Genitive	*friundi	*friundō
Dative	*friundi	*friundum
Instrumental	*friundi	*friundum

Derived terms

• *friundskapi

Descendants

• Old English: frēond, frīond — Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish
  • Middle English: frend, frende, freond, friend, vrend, freend, frond, frund, freind, freynde, vryend, frind
    • English: friend (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: freend, frende, freynd, freind
    • Yola: vriene, friend
    • → Welsh: ffrind
• Old Frisian: friūnd, friōnd
  • Saterland Frisian: Früünd, Fjund
  • West Frisian: freon
• Old Saxon: friund
  • Middle Low German: vrint, vrünt, vrent
    • German Low German: Fründ, Frund, Frönd
    • Plautdietsch: Frint
    • → Old Swedish: frynt, frynd
      • Swedish: frynt (obsolete)
• Old Dutch: friunt, friund
  • Middle Dutch: vrient
    • Dutch: vriend, vrind
      • Afrikaans: vriend
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: frindi
      • Javindo: friend
      • Jersey Dutch: vrînt
      • Negerhollands: vriend, vrient
      • Petjo: pring (archaic)
    • Limburgish: vröndj
• Old High German: friunt
  • Middle High German: vriunt
    • Alemannic German: Fründ
    • Bavarian: Freind
    • Cimbrian: vròint, bròint (Mezzaselva)
    • Central Franconian: Frönd, Frend, Frind (Moselle Franconian), Frönk (Ripuarian, now chiefly western dialects), Fründ (Kölsch)
      • Hunsrik: Freind
      • Luxembourgish: Frënd
    • German: Freund
    • Vilamovian: frajnd
    • Volhynian German: Freind
    • Yiddish: פֿרײַנד (fraynd)